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Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2026): A Meditation on Love, Grief, and Art*
*features mention of an assumed stillbirth Anyone who knows me well knows that second only to Jesus in my life is Shakespeare. Anyone who knows me really well will know that Hamlet is my favourite Shakespeare play, has been one of my favourite plays in the history of plays since… Continue reading
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‘Thou art a Roman, be not barbarous’: Civilisation & Barbarism in Titus Andronicus and Othello
The Oxford English Dictionary defines barbarism as ‘rudeness or unpolished condition of language’ as well as the ‘absence of culture’, further defining it as the opposite of civilisation.1 Both definitions of the word have been in use as early as the late sixteenth century. While Europeans during the Age of… Continue reading
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Foreigners and Foreignness in Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Dutch Church Libel (1593)
In the chapter on foreigners in Keywords of Identity, Race and Human Mobility in Early Modern England, Nandini Das and others explain that in early modern England, the identity category of ‘foreigner’ was thought of in three ways: those with a place of origin outside of England, those spiritually estranged… Continue reading